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FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 file photo, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, listens to Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov while watching 'West-2009' military exercises at Khmelevka firing ground in Russia's westernmost Kaliningrad region. When one-time furniture salesman Anatoly Serdyukov was suddenly named Russia's defense minister, many career military officers smirked in contempt. Now after tens of thousands of them have lost their jobs in his reforms, many are seething with anger and could take to the streets in protest. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Vladimir Rodionov, Presidential Press Service)
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